In the last post on the Evince Blog I was writing about Google Street View coming to Canada. I wrote that “the probability of a specific subject of an investigation being in a given location at the exact time that the Google Street View people were driving by is pretty low. In other words, a reliable surveillance tool this ain’t.”

Sometimes its okay to be proven wrong.

According to a Reuters article “Dutch muggers caught on Google street view camera” a pair of twins that mugged a Dutch teenager were caught by Dutch police after the teen recognized himself from a Street View image at the place and approximate time where he was mugged.

I wonder if this means that criminals are likely to also “virtually” return to the place where they committed the crime. Something to think about for the computer forensics professionals out there.